Remove date in google snippets.

[mhote]

Hi,

I am trying to remove the dates on google snippet but it is not working correctly.
I already tried by adding below code to functions.php.
add_filter( 'wpseo_show_date_in_snippet_preview', false);

Also i found these code somewhere. Do you think this will work ?

function remove_post_dates() {
add_filter('the_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_the_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('the_modified_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_the_modified_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('the_date', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_the_date', '__return_false');
add_filter('the_modified_date', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_the_modified_date', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_comment_date', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_comment_time', '__return_false');
}
add_action('loop_start', 'remove_post_dates');

This code might make lots of changes. So i want to make sure first.
Can you please help me to fix this.

Best Regards

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

You need to contact WordPress Seo support, they are in better position to answer this.
Hope you understand.

-Rui

[mhote]

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[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

To remove the date from the SERP’s, please active your child theme. Inside the child theme folder find functions.php. Inside this, copy and paste this:

	/* POST DETAIL META
	================================================== */
	if ( ! function_exists( 'sf_post_detail_meta' ) ) {
	    function sf_post_detail_meta() {
	        global $post;
	        $post_title = get_the_title();
	        $post_date = get_the_date();
	        $post_date_str = get_the_date('Y-m-d');
	        
	        $post_image = get_post_thumbnail_id();
	       	$image_meta = array();
	       	$post_image_url = $post_image_alt = "";
	        
	        if ( $post_image != "" ) {
		        $post_image_meta = sf_get_attachment_meta( $post_image );
		        if ( isset($post_image_meta) ) {
		        	$post_image_alt = esc_attr( $post_image_meta['alt'] );
		        } 
		        $post_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id());
	        }
	        
	        ?>
	        
	        <div class="article-meta hide">
	        	<div itemprop="headline"><?php echo $post_title; ?></div>
	        	<?php if ( $post_image != "" ) { ?>
	        	<img itemprop="image" src="<?php echo $post_image_url; ?>" alt="<?php echo $post_image_alt; ?>"/>
	        	<?php } ?>
	        </div>
	        
	    <?php
	    }
	}
	add_action( 'sf_post_article_start', 'sf_post_detail_meta', 0 );

This will remove the line <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="<?php echo $post_date_str; ?>"><?php echo $post_date; ?></time> this is what Google uses to output the date.

However: Google will only update their SERP’s without the date when they next crawl your site’s pages, this could take weeks or months to reflect in Google’s index.

Thanks.

[mhote]

Worked instantly once re-submitting the index, thank you David!

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Great thanks to David for this code snippet.
Mohammad